KOLKATA: Kolkata Mounted Police, the country's oldest mounted police unit, seems to be discontinuing with its pre-Independence practice of recruiting sowars, civilian horse riders.
Before 1857, two sowars were part of the unit to spot ships in the harbour. After the first war of independence, the unit was additionally tasked to maintain law and order and moved to 138 SN Banerjee Road. It was scaled up with six sowars, six syces and seven horses.
